Bertrand Goldberg's Prentice Hospital in Chicago

Tribune photo by Candice C. Cusic

Of all of modernist architect Bertrand Goldberg's numerous hospital commissions, Prentice Women's Hospital is the best known. Completed in 1975, it exhibits Goldberg's noted use of circular forms for four linked towers atop a five-story glass-and-steel podium.

Of all of modernist architect Bertrand Goldberg's numerous hospital commissions, Prentice Women's Hospital is the best known. Completed in 1975, it exhibits Goldberg's noted use of circular forms for four linked towers atop a five-story glass-and-steel podium. (Tribune photo by Candice C. Cusic)

Of all of modernist architect Bertrand Goldberg's numerous hospital commissions, Prentice Women's Hospital is the best known. Completed in 1975, it exhibits Goldberg's noted use of circular forms for four linked towers atop a five-story glass-and-steel podium.